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i am kate howard, i am the mayor's budget director. i thought i would give you a brief overview of our city's budget. as supervisor cohen pointed out, the budget is one of the most important laws that san francisco passes. it's a law of our source and how we spend it. and it's a plan that sets our priority. so it's important for us to hear from you what those priorities ought to be. i have here on my right, your left, a series of charts that show you a little bit more about san francisco's budget. overall the city's budget is about $7.4 billion annually. that includes all the funds we have to spend. all the city functions and the county functions and the airport and our police department and fire department and human services agency and our health department. you can see the next chart shows you where we get most of our money. so we spend a lot of time in san francisco talking about how to balance the budget. and we tend to focus that balancing conversation on what we call the general fund. those are the funds that the city has discret
i am kate howard, i am the mayor's budget director. i thought i would give you a brief overview of our city's budget. as supervisor cohen pointed out, the budget is one of the most important laws that san francisco passes. it's a law of our source and how we spend it. and it's a plan that sets our priority. so it's important for us to hear from you what those priorities ought to be. i have here on my right, your left, a series of charts that show you a little bit more about san francisco's...
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Apr 21, 2013
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i'm kate howard. i'm the mayor's budget director. i'm here to just to talk briefly about the really exciting opportunity that i think is going to be coming up in the city, which is announcement of our new chief data officer. some people may think that the budget office is mostly being countered, but really our office is focused on how do we make government more efficient, how do we make it more effective, and how do we use information to make better decisions. and i think that's why the mayor has asked that the chief data officer sit in my office. so that they have access to financial information as well as a team of people who are already inclined to work on analytical problems. so, as the mayor and board president chiu indicated we'll be hiring a chief data officer looking for the best and brightest people. so, if you know of people or if you yourself are interested, i'd love to talk to you, so, find me after. the role of this person is to figure out how do we build on what we've already done in terms of open data, how do we make g
i'm kate howard. i'm the mayor's budget director. i'm here to just to talk briefly about the really exciting opportunity that i think is going to be coming up in the city, which is announcement of our new chief data officer. some people may think that the budget office is mostly being countered, but really our office is focused on how do we make government more efficient, how do we make it more effective, and how do we use information to make better decisions. and i think that's why the mayor...
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Apr 10, 2013
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first i would like to acknowledge the mayor's office, both melissa howard and kate howard for their collaboration with our office over the last few months in particular in making sure that we were all on the same page, and our office greatly appreciates that great level of collegiality. i would also like to thank the controller's office for their assistance, as i have called on them in my time as sheriff as well as the budget analyst office, ms. deborah newman and, of course, harvey. i also want to thank ms. peggy sugar man who can help us related to workers' comp issues that me and the cfo will go into shortly. generally speaking, the sheriff's department is moving right in well because we have been under staffed for some years. we see the cumulative effect, which is not unfamiliar to the board of supervisors or to the sheriff's department, where we have come before the board, budget and finance committee, out of the last 10 years -- five out of the last 10 years for supplementals because of our heavy reliance on overtime. in our ministration, i declare that we had will do everything we possibly
first i would like to acknowledge the mayor's office, both melissa howard and kate howard for their collaboration with our office over the last few months in particular in making sure that we were all on the same page, and our office greatly appreciates that great level of collegiality. i would also like to thank the controller's office for their assistance, as i have called on them in my time as sheriff as well as the budget analyst office, ms. deborah newman and, of course, harvey. i also...
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Apr 1, 2013
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kate howard. happy to talk you throw thank you high level known that impacts of federal sequestration on the city and counties. and in addition, some of the other local agencies and some potential impacts to the residents of the cities and coincidences. i thought i'd take thank you high-level of what has happened in the sequesterer and share you to what degree their uncertain and happy to answer any questions. i've handed out a copy of this presentation as well as a high level summary of the high-level impacts thi impacts. the yellow or orange dots are sharing with you have how certain we are of those cuts. you'll remember in not that i'm aware of both the house and the senate voted across the board for the president to act around federal reduction. that threat was not strong enough to get people to take action so on january 2nd the congress detailed implementation of this sequestration puc. congress was still not able to come up with the decision so the sequesterer cuts have been implemented. tha
kate howard. happy to talk you throw thank you high level known that impacts of federal sequestration on the city and counties. and in addition, some of the other local agencies and some potential impacts to the residents of the cities and coincidences. i thought i'd take thank you high-level of what has happened in the sequesterer and share you to what degree their uncertain and happy to answer any questions. i've handed out a copy of this presentation as well as a high level summary of the...
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Apr 2, 2013
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if you ask kate howard shell tell you we have made a immensely clear this is a problem that needs to be solved. in the beginning of the year you're already $60,000 in terms of your household spending and you're only making a hundred thousand dollars a year there's no possible way you're going to be able to operate. and that's how it is at the beginning the year and we don't have enough money to pay our existing staff. if you say you've think irresponsible in not hiring people but the reality is we don't have enough in our existing salary to hire the necessary folks >> thank you to members the budget committee and i apologize because of the fact we can't have 6 members of the board it's one of those things you can have only 5 members in the hearing. so i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here. i've tried to follow this discussion and i think there is a fundamental mistake of what we're talking about. and my understanding is that all department heads a asked to sign that document whether or not the bickering budget a adequate and the fact is that you do that what the expectat
if you ask kate howard shell tell you we have made a immensely clear this is a problem that needs to be solved. in the beginning of the year you're already $60,000 in terms of your household spending and you're only making a hundred thousand dollars a year there's no possible way you're going to be able to operate. and that's how it is at the beginning the year and we don't have enough money to pay our existing staff. if you say you've think irresponsible in not hiring people but the reality is...
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i wanted to thank kate howard, the director of the mayor's budget office and the office of neighborhood services and the staff that supervisor tang and myself as well for the outreach work. the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs will be providing simultaneous translation to the many chinese and maybe russian speaking people from our neighborhoods and other languages if needed. so, if you want information about the first of a series of our districts town halls, please let my staff now. also later today on our imperative agenda is an item, i'd like to ask you to join me in honoring a great business in the richmond celebrating 50 years, tia margarita. there are some in the audience that love it there as i do as well. we're going to be voting on declaring april 20th saturday, 2013 as tia margarita day in san francisco. its was founded by virginia and alex hobbs and it's been in business since 1963 at the corner of 19th and clement street in the richmond district. 50 years of continuous service is an example of a great responsible family business and an overwhelming amount of s
i wanted to thank kate howard, the director of the mayor's budget office and the office of neighborhood services and the staff that supervisor tang and myself as well for the outreach work. the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs will be providing simultaneous translation to the many chinese and maybe russian speaking people from our neighborhoods and other languages if needed. so, if you want information about the first of a series of our districts town halls, please let my staff...
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howard from the mayor's budget office to come together to look at the nuts and bolts of these two funds. so current state of what's going on. i have to say i'm very proud, we have lots of successes in these funds. we have a very strong partnership with the school district around afterschool programming, so strong that we actually did a joint rfp together. so really solidified the partnership and relationships. we also partner on early care and education funding in terms of stacking the funds so that we can have more robust programming for our children, increasing quality and capacity. we jointly fund wellness centers to ensure that all of our students in high school have access to health, mental health services. we have robust beacon centers which are really neighborhood hubs that are in school facilities that addresses student needs as well as family and community needs. however, we do have challenges as well. we have challenges in ways of us tracking and measuring performance and outcomes. both of these funds are somewhat complex in their nature and so i think we need to figure those
howard from the mayor's budget office to come together to look at the nuts and bolts of these two funds. so current state of what's going on. i have to say i'm very proud, we have lots of successes in these funds. we have a very strong partnership with the school district around afterschool programming, so strong that we actually did a joint rfp together. so really solidified the partnership and relationships. we also partner on early care and education funding in terms of stacking the funds so...